PEZ-man Ed Hood has been travelling ‘en convoy’ with the Cycling.TV crew, and drove ahead of today’s stage from Lisieux to Vitre. You can learn a lot about a country and it’s people by following a bike race – here’s what we saw roadside…

• The town center in Beauvais – start of stage 5 – yup, just another large building completely decorated for the bike race… (try and imagine this kind of support back home…)

• Of all the places to send the next 5 hours in the caravan…

• Stage 6: the fun starts here.

• Nothing like a birthday celebration roadside at le Tour. Can you guess which one is Collette?

• D’day from the Aussie fans – a couple hours before Robbie Mac scored his win, these fans talked with Cycling.Tv.

• When supporting your local bike race, it’s popular in this region to turn out in your Sunday best, avec reading material and a device to assist in sitting.